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| Project start date: 2004-04 | Project end date: 2009-03 |
Aims to promote the study of music as performance through a specific focus on recordings. Its activities include a major discographic project, seminars and research projects.
Traditionally, music has been studied as a text reproduced in performance - almost as if it were an obscure kind of literature. By placing performance at the centre of musicology - by promoting a musicology based on recordings and not just scores - CHARM aims to reduce the gulf between musicology and the listener. CHARM addresses three fundamental problems:
* the difficulty of accessing early recordings
* the dispersal of knowledge about recordings
* the need to develop analytical approaches to recordings
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| Audio mixing | Practice-led research |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Coding and standardisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Content analysis | Data analysis |
| Content-based sound retrieval | Data analysis |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| General project management | Strategy and project management |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Indexing | Data analysis |
| Iterative design | Strategy and project management |
| Preservation | Strategy and project management |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Sound analysis | Data analysis |
| Sound editing | Practice-led research |
| Sound editing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Sound encoding | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Sound generation | Practice-led research |
| Sound generation | Data capture |
| Streaming media | Data publishing and dissemination |
| System quality assurance and code testing | Strategy and project management |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - referential | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Usability analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Use of existing digital data | Data capture |
| Version control | Strategy and project management |
78rpm discs, discography catalogues
online discography, library of ex-copyright recordings, digital monograph on recorded music, sound files archive
Conversion from XML files to Lucene Documents for web-search
Generation of HTML files from XML data for web-delivery
Generation of FLAC files from 78rpm discs
CHARM Publications: http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/studies/p6_1_3.html
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, The Changing Sound of Music: Approaches to Studying Recorded Musical Performance, http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/studies/chapters/intro.html
* Rink, John, Neta Spiro and Nicolas Gold. ‘Motive, gesture and the analysis of performance’, in New Perspectives on Music and Gesture, ed. Anthony Gritten and Elaine King (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming).
* Spiro, Neta, Nicolas Gold and John Rink. ‘The form of performance: analyzing pattern distribution in select recordings of Chopin’s Mazurka Op. 24 No. 2’, Musicae Scientiae (forthcoming).
* Spiro, Neta, Nicolas Gold and John Rink. ‘Plus ça change: analyzing performances of Chopin’s Mazurka Op. 24 No. 2’, in Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, ed. Ken’ichi Miyazaki et al (Sapporo: ICMPC10, 2008), 418-27.
* Spiro, Neta, Nicolas Gold and John Rink. ‘In search of motive: identification of repeated patterns in performance and their structural context’, in Proceedings of the Inaugural International Conference on Music Communication Science (ICoMCS), ed. Emery Schubert et al (Sydney: ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science (HCSNet), 2007), 152-4.
* Spiro, Neta, Nicolas Gold and John Rink. ‘Performance motives: analysis and comparison of performance timing repetitions using pattern matching and Formal Concept Analysis’, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science, ed. Aaron Williamon and Daniela Coimbra (Utrecht: European Association of Conservatoires, 2007), 175-80.
* Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel. 'Performance style in Elena Gerhardt's Schubert song recordings', Musicae Scientiae (forthcoming).
* Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel. 'Recordings and histories of performance style', in The Cambridge Companion to Recordings, ed. Nicholas Cook, Eric Clarke, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson and John Rink (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
* Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel. 'Musicology and performance', in Music’s Intellectual History: Founders, Followers and Fads, ed. Zdravko Blazekovic (New York: RILM, forthcoming).
* Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel. The Changing Sound of Music: Approaches to Studying Recorded Musical Performances (London: CHARM, 2009). [http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/studies/chapters/intro.html]
* Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel. 'Sound and meaning in recordings of Schubert's "Die junge Nonne"', Musicae Scientiae 11/2 (2007), 209-36.
* Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel. 'Expressive gesture in Schubert singing on record', Nordisk Estetisk Tidskrift [Nordic Journal of Aesthetics] 33 (2006), 50-70.
* Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel. 'Portamento and musical meaning', Journal of Musicological Research 25 (2006), 233-61.
* Timmers, Renee. 'Vocal expression in recorded performances of Schubert songs', Musicae Scientiae 11/2 (2007), 237-68.
* Timmers, Renee. 'Communication of (e)motion through performance: two case studies', Orbis Musicae 14 (2007), 116-40. [special issue on performance]
* Timmers, Renee. 'Perception of music performance on historical and modern commercial recordings', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122/5 (2007), 2872-80.
* Cook, Nicholas. 'The ghost in the machine: towards a musicology of recordings', Musicae Scientiae (forthcoming).
* Cook, Nicholas. 'Off the Record: Performance, History, and Musical Logic', in Music and the Mind: Investigating the Functions and Processes of Music, ed. Irène Deliege (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). German translation in Musik.Theorien der Gegenwart, ed. Clemens Gadenstätter and Christian Utz (Saarbrücken: PFAU-Verlag, forthcoming).
* Cook, Nicholas. 'Bridging the unbridgeable? Empirical musicology and interdisciplinary performance studies', in New Perspectives on Peformance Studies: Music across the Disciplines, ed. Nicholas Cook and Richard Pettengill (Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, forthcoming).
* Cook, Nicholas. 'Objective expression: phrase arching in recordings of Chopin's Mazurkas', in Reactions to the Record: Perspectives on Historical Performance, ed. George Barth and Kumaran Arul (forthcoming). Abridged version: 'Squaring the circle: phrase arching in recordings of Chopin's mazurkas', Musica Humana (forthcoming).
* Cook, Nicholas. 'Beyond reproduction: semiotic perspectives on musical performance', Zeitschrift für Semiotik, special issue 'Zeichen jenseits von Bezeichnung. Musiksemiotische Konzepte' (forthcoming). [in German]
* Cook, Nicholas. 'Methods for analysing recordings', in The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music, ed. Nicholas Cook, Eric Clarke, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson and John Rink (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
* Cook, Nicholas. 'Changing the musical object: approaches to performance analysis', in Music's Intellectual History: Founders, Followers and Fads, ed. Zdravko Blazekovic (New York: RILM, forthcoming).
* Cook, Nicholas. 'Beyond the Notes', Nature 453 (25 June 2008), 1186-7.
* Cook, Nicholas. 'Performance analysis and Chopin's mazurkas', Musicae Scientiae 11/2 (2007), 183-207; also published in Chopin in Paris: The 1830s (Warsaw: Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, 2009), 119-39.
* Cook, Nicholas and Craig Sapp. 'Une pure coïncidence? Joyce Hatto et les Mazurkas de Chopin', trans. Jean-François Cornu, L'étincelle: Le journal de la création à l'IRCAM 3 (2008), 19-21.
* Earis, Andrew. 'An algorithm to extract expressive timing and dynamics from piano recordings', Musicae Scientiae 11/2 (2007), 155-82.
* Sapp, Craig. 'Performance authenticity: a case study of the Concert Artist label', paper presented at the ARSC Conference 2008, Stanford. [web publication]
* Sapp, Craig. 'Hybrid numeric/rank similarity metrics for musical performance analysis', paper presented at ISMIR 2008, Philadelphia. [web publication]
* Sapp, Craig. 'Comparative analysis of multiple musical performances', Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) 2007 (Vienna, Austria), 497-500.
* Sapp, Craig. 'Mazurkas project report', RMA Newsletter (Autumn 2006).
* Volioti, Georgia. 'Playing with tradition: weighing up similarity and the buoyancy of the game', Musicae Scientiae (forthcoming).
* Morgan, Nicholas. '"A new pleasure": listening to National Gramophonic Society records, 1924-1931', Musicae Scientiae (forthcoming).
* Patmore, David. 'The Columbia Graphophone Company, 1923-1931: commercial competition, cultural plurality and beyond', Musicae Scientiae (forthcoming).
* Patmore, David. 'Albert Coates – a forgotten master’, Three Oranges: the Journal of the Serge Prokofiev Foundation (forthcoming).
* Patmore, David. 'Selling sounds', in The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music, ed. Nicholas Cook, Eric Clarke, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, and John Rink (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
* Patmore, David. The Columbia Graphophone Company, 1925-1931 (Sheffield: Department of Music, University of Sheffield, forthcoming). [CD-ROM]
* Patmore, David. Piero Coppola: Autobiography, Biography, Discography, Sound Recordings (Sheffield: Department of Music, University of Sheffield, 2008). [CD-ROM]
* Patmore, David. 'John Culshaw and the recording as a work of art', Journal of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections 39/1 (2008), 20-40.
* Patmore, David and Eric Clarke. 'Making and hearing virtual worlds: John Culshaw and the art of record production’, Musicae Scientiae 11 (2007), 269-93.
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| King's College London |
| Royal Holloway |
| University of Sheffield |
| Principal staff member: | Professor Eric Clarke,Professor Nicholas Cook,Professor John Rink,Daniel Leech Wilkinson |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), PhD student(s) |
| External expertise: |
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| This project description was developed as part of the ICT Guides project. |
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| Author(s) of record | Paul Spence |
| Title | Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music |
| Record created | 2009-10-13 |
| Record updated | 2010-01-25 16:02 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2334 |
| Citation of record | Paul Spence: Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2334> created: 2009-10-13, last updated 2010-01-25 16:02 |
